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The sketch was so popular that it was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, with a plaque, gold record and transcript of this famous sketch included in the museum collection — although they were not actually inducted into the Hall of Fame — over their less well-known word-play routine " Slaughter the Baseball Player " ( Who's On First full radio broadcast ), where they were looking for to buy a baseball bat and the one available was made for Enos Slaughter, and the more sadistic " Ninth Inning Steal " routine in which Bud and Lou rob an unsuspecting person by distracting him with a sensational baseball game recounting, unaware that someone else has already robbed the intended target using the same distraction.
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During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.
Furthermore, he was depicted upon the Italian 10, 000 Lire ( no longer in circulation ) along with a sketch of his famous Voltaic Pile.
Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.
The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.
" Shatner participated in the sketch, outfitted in a USMC Class A uniform, which was a satire of Oliver North and his refusal at that point to speak up about his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, and in which he had no lines.
Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.
In April 1910, he was given the lead role in a new sketch, Jimmy the Fearless, or The Boy ' Ero.
The sketch stopped after Ditka was fired in 1993.
The sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered ( through self-administered CPR ).
At least one DNAYS sketch was re-used in Monty Python.
Requesting a sitting from the busy and impatient general, David was able to sketch Napoleon in 1797.
The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.
Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with George Burns in the Bob Hope television Special Joys in 1976.
In the Dead Parrot sketch, written mostly by Cleese, the frustrated customer was initially trying to return a faulty toaster to a shop.
By the time the entire cast joined in, the sketch was introduced by Cathy Baker.
Hutton's theory led him to conclude that reliance on Bruiel's initial sketch resulted in many later scholars erroneously claiming that " The Sorcerer " was evidence that the concept of a Horned God dated back to Paleolithic times
For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.
Derisively titling his article The Exhibition of the Impressionists, Leroy declared that Monet's painting was at most, a sketch, and could hardly be termed a finished work.
By 1866 he was " able to command ten to fifteen guineas for the reworking of a single Punch cartoon as a pencil sketch ", alongside his " comfortable " Punch salary " of about £ 800 a year ".
A sketch of the more essential reforms followed: the recognition rather than the toleration of the Christian religion ; the abolition of the system of farming the taxes ; and, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the religious was complicated by an agrarian question, the conversion of the Christian peasants into free proprietors, to rescue them from their double subjection to the Muslim Ottoman landowners.
He was able to paint and sketch while in the Coast Guard.
Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, while promoting Holy Grail in Amsterdam, had come up with a sketch in which Jesus ' cross was falling apart because of the idiotic carpenters who built it and he angrily tells them how to do it correctly.
For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).
Another often-reproduced drawing is a macabre sketch that was done by Leonardo in Florence in 1479 showing the body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in connection with the murder of Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo de ' Medici, in the Pazzi Conspiracy.
The " Dead Parrot " sketch was inspired by a " Car Salesman " sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People.
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And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.
At Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his eulogy by reprising euphemisms from the sketch, stating that Graham Chapman was no more, that he had ceased to be, that bereft of life he rests in peace, that he had expired and gone to meet his maker, and so on, finally calling him an ex-Chapman.
The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter.
In that sketch he acknowledged that Patrick Matthew had, unknown to Wallace or himself, anticipated the concept of natural selection in an appendix to a book published in 1831 ; in the fourth edition he mentioned that William Charles Wells had done so as early as 1813.
Horace Walpole wrote that Hogarth had run a great risk to go there since the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, he went to France, and was so imprudent as to be taking a sketch of the drawbridge at Calais.
One sketch satirizing CBS's detective show Cannon and its portly star William Conrad was so successful that Sonny and Cher staged several follow-ups, with Tony Curtis as " Detective Fat.
His paper, the Point du Jour, according to François Victor Alphonse Aulard, owed its reputation not so much to its own qualities as to the fact that the painter Jacques-Louis David, in his sketch of the Tennis Court Oath, showed Barère kneeling in the corner and writing a report of the proceedings for posterity.
If these advantages and requisites are observed, perhaps in time to come some one might know how better to utilize our sketch and cause some addition to be made so as to accomplish that which we can only suggest.
As the show was originally scheduled to air after Fawlty Towers, John Cleese was to have introduced the first episode in a sketch referring to a technicians ' strike then in progress, explaining ( in character as Basil Fawlty ) that there was no show that week so a " tatty revue " would be broadcast instead.
Cleese in particular seems disheartened that so many fans consider it the troupe's " best " sketch.
* On an episode of The Chaser's War On Everything, Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor do a sketch called " The Chaser's British Comedy Sketch ", filled with various Monty Python cliches, which climaxes with Andrew screaming " I'm going to do something so totally bizarre it will be imitated verbatim by comedy nerds for decades to come!
" Gillray revenged himself for this utterance by his splendid caricature entitled, A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper, which he is doing by means of a candle on a " save-all "; so that the sketch satirises at once the king's pretensions to knowledge of art and his miserly habits.
In one sketch, the family demonstrates the use of a DVP, their country's version of a DVD which is an LP-sized round block of wood played in a loud wooden machine powered by a gasoline engine which is started by pulling a cord ; the machine plays their spoof of the movie Mission: Impossible with visual interference and a rattling noise so loud no one can hear the movie.
Michelson actually carried crayons with him so he could sketch where ever he was.
After Dyke's departure from the BBC, in the last sketch it was changed so that he was no longer director general.
Adams sent in a sketch of Dilbert and Dildog, but realized he had to make " Dildog " more newspaper friendly ( any printing error that dropped the G would wreak havoc ) so he changed it to Dogbert.
In particular, he objected so strongly to one character – ' Ken Shabby ' – that the sketch was removed, leaving both Terry Jones and Michael Palin to complain much later that the vast majority of the film was " nothing more than jokes behind desks.
In a manner similar to Dastardly's attempts to catch the pidgeon, each sketch sees the Duke trying to destroy Catherine Middleton, Prince William's girlfriend at the time, so as to prevent a ' commoner ' from entering the Royal Family.
I should be extremely glad now to publish a sketch of my general views in about a dozen pages or so.
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